Derelict vessel, orange survival craft with white x's, adrift in 31-05.50N 046-55.50W
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 477/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-04-28 16:50Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · RCC NORFOLK 0/24 281312Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-28 13:35Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 31.092, -46.925. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2024-04-28 13:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-05-01 13:34Z
- authority
- RCC NORFOLK 0/24 281312Z APR 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- RCC NORFOLK
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 31.092, -46.925
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 1. DERELICT VESSEL, ORANGE SURVIVAL CRAFT WITH WHITE X'S, ADRIFT IN 31-05.50N 046-55.50W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 011334Z MAY 24.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
8 within 180 nm since 2001 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Derelict S/V le chercheur adrift in vicinity 32-58.00N 045-52.00W2024-01-02
- Debris from vessel adrift in vicinity 31-22.75N 047-38.85W2020-04-21
- Derelict S/V poker face, on fire and adrift in 30-17.4N 043-57.9W at 081231Z apr2014-04-08
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift vicinity 29-43N 044-44W2008-11-09
- Derelict 16 meter vessel partially submerged and adrift vicinity 31-58.1N 045-46.2W at 041325Z may2003-05-05
- Dereict lifeboat adrift vicinity 29-08N 047-29.3W at 231231Z jul2002-07-23
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 21:31Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.